"Never Again"" had its origins in the early 1960s following the controversy over the 1961 ""Thunderball"" novel, which led to Kevin McClory becoming producer of the Eon Productions film of the same name. Part of the agreement between McClory and Eon was that McClory would not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the 1965 ""Thunderball"". In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a ""Thunderball"" adaptation to production and, with the working title ""Warhead"" (a.k.a. ""James Bond of the Secret Service"") he brought writer Len"
"senior of three 00 agents; the two others were 008 and 0011. The three men share an office and a secretary named Loelia Ponsonby. Later novels feature two more 00 agents; 009 is mentioned in ""Thunderball"" and 006 is mentioned in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"". Other authors have elaborated and expanded upon the 00 agents. While they presumably have been sent on dangerous missions as Bond has, little has been revealed about most of them. Several have been named, both by Fleming and other authors, along with passing references to their service records, which suggest that agents are largely"
"the antenna array, due to Bond's sabotage, explodes and collapses in a fiery wreck on top of Trevelyan, killing him. Trevelyan is the only 00 Agent (other than Bond himself) to have a substantial role in a Bond film, which includes a sizeable screen and speaking time. The only other 00 agent to have any amount of screentime in a Bond film is ""Octopussy""s 009, portrayed by stuntman Andy Bradford. Besides seeing the back of their heads or before they are shortly killed and/or dead already (""Thunderball"", ""A View to a Kill"", and ""The Living Daylights""), other 00 agents are"
"the first novel, ""Casino Royale"", and the 2006 film adaptation, the 00 concept is introduced and, in Bond's words, means ""that you've had to kill a chap in cold blood in the course of some assignment."" Bond's 00 number (007) was awarded to him because he twice killed in fulfilling assignments. (This differentiates from deadly force used by non-00 agents in the course of self-defence or offensive action; plus, in the original time frame of the novel—the early 1950s—many MI6 agents would have had recent war service.) In the second novel, ""Live and Let Die"", the 00 number designates a"
"00 Agent In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00 Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00 (typically read """"Double O"""" and denoted in Fleming's novels by the letters ""OO"" rather than the digits ""00"") is a field agent that holds a licence to kill in the field, at his or her discretion, to complete any mission. The novel ""Moonraker"" establishes that the section routinely has three agents concurrently; the film series, beginning with ""Thunderball"", establishes the number of 00 agents at a minimum of 9, with the likelihood of more. In"
"00 agent, he would not have worked with her. With Bond returning to active duty, Scarlett moves off to her own operations as a full 00 agent. The central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming. Faulks modelled his version of the character on Fleming's version, ignoring the other continuation authors and the films; when interviewed, Faulks said that ""My Bond is Fleming's Bond—not Connery, or Moore or Craig, for all their charms"", going on to say that ""my Bond drinks and smokes as much as ever"". Faulks saw Bond as a"
"""GoldenEye"", 006 is an alias for Alec Trevelyan. The following lists are of the known 00 agents of the British Secret Service who exist in the Ian Fleming novels & short stories, the officially licensed novels, the EON movies, or in the official video games or comic strips. 00 Agent In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00 Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00 (typically read """"Double O"""" and denoted in Fleming's novels by the letters ""OO"" rather than the digits ""00"") is a field agent that holds a licence to"
"Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit Agentti 000 ja kuolema kurvit (English title ""Agent 000 and The Deadly Curves"") was a 1983 Finnish spy comedy film directed by Visa Mäkinen and written by Ismo Sajakorpi. The film stars Ilmari Saarelainen as James Bond impersonator Joonas G. Breitenfeldt (Agent 000) and Tenho Saurén as a bank robber. English actor John Wood also makes an appearance as Agent 009, and his serious, wooden portrayal of the character stands in contrast to the outrageous antics of the other members of the cast contributing to further humour. Finnish actress Kielo Tommila stars as the reporter"
"officer. At the start of Fleming's first book, ""Casino Royale"", Bond is already a 00 agent, having been given the position after killing two enemy agents, a Japanese spy on the thirty-sixth floor of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (then housing the headquarters of British Security Co-ordination - BSC) in New York City and a Norwegian double agent who had betrayed two British agents; it is suggested by Bond scholar John Griswold that these were part of Bond's wartime service with Special Operations Executive, a British World War II covert military organisation. In 1954, according to the Soviet file"
"revised again for Daniel Craig's first portrayal of Agent 007 in ""Casino Royale"" (2006). Unlike previous installments, the gun barrel sequence does not open the film as a standalone segment; it is part of the plot. Having seemingly committed the first kill on his way to becoming a Double-O agent, Bond stops to pick up his gun from the floor but his victim, Fisher, who is a henchman of rogue MI6 section chief Dryden, recovers and seizes his own weapon. As Fisher brings his pistol up to shoot Bond in the back, the frame shifts instantly to the gun barrel"
"captors, including Jaws (Richard Kiel). Unbeknownst to Bond, Nadanova then gives a vial of her nanobots to Nikolai Diavolo (Willem Dafoe), a former KGB agent with ties to Max Zorin. Some time later, Bond is sent to investigate a Peruvian platinum mine, where agent 003 was last seen. Enlisting the aid of an American geologist, Serena St. Germaine (Shannon Elizabeth), Bond finds 003, only for Diavolo to mortally wound the latter; after 003 mentions New Orleans before dying, Bond rescues Serena and heads for America. After NSA double agent Mya Starling (Mýa) is discovered, Bond rescues her and they track"
"Bond film ""The Living Daylights"", starring Timothy Dalton as 007. In 1995 and 1997, Baker returned to the series, this time playing a different character, CIA agent Jack Wade, in ""GoldenEye"" and ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", with Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Baker is one of four actors to appear as both a Bond ally and a villain, the others being Charles Gray, who appeared as Henderson in ""You Only Live Twice"" and Ernst Stavro Blofeld in ""Diamonds Are Forever""; Walter Gotell, who appeared as Morzeny, the SPECTRE Island trainer, in ""From Russia with Love"" and as General Gogol, the head of"
"the agents gain a certain amount of notoriety. In particular, Agent 0008 found himself the subject of a series of action novels. Agent 0008 appeared to resemble the contemporary James Bond actor Sean Connery This is in stark contrast to the depiction of Z.O.W.I.E. in ""In Like Flint"". In this film, Z.O.W.I.E. head Lloyd Cramden reports directly to the President of the United States, who relieves him of duty. In addition, the organization has a military hierarchy of officers, recruits through advertising campaigns, and presides over certain large-scale operations such as an orbital space platform. In the second film we"
"James Bond 007: Service James Bond 007: Service is a 2017 spy thriller one-shot comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment, featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent character, James Bond in the leading role, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Antonio Fuso. The comic is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and as such, spun off from the monthly ongoing ""James Bond"" series, coming out as a one-off special in the franchise. Presumably set after the events of Brexit, a word was received by MI-6 from an unidentified source that the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Thomas was being targeted"
"is popularly known from the James Bond novels and films, where it is signified by the ""00"" (Double O) designation given to the agents in the series who are licensed to kill; Bond himself is famously agent 007. In literary portrayals, the licence is presumed to be a discretionary one, distributed rarely and requiring extensive training to obtain, granted only to a handful of covert agents of a state in the interest of national security. The agent is not necessarily expected to kill enemies as part of a mission, but may receive legal immunity from prosecution (in his own country)"
"Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, with Saltzman selling his 50% stake in Danjaq, LLC, the parent company of Eon Productions, after the release of the film. In London, a golden bullet with James Bond's code ""007"" etched into its surface is received by MI6. It is believed that it was sent by the famed assassin Francisco Scaramanga, who uses a golden gun, to intimidate the agent. Because of the perceived threat to the agent's life, M relieves Bond of a mission revolving around the work of the solar energy scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of information crucial to"
"James Bond 007: Minute of Midnight James Bond 007: Minute of Midnight is a 1994 spy thriller comic book featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond in the lead, with the story written by Doug Moench and illustrated by Russ Heath, and published by Dark Horse Comics. It is released as part of a double bill alongside an unrelated franchise title ""Aliens Vs. Predator: Blood Time"" issued in Dark Horse Comics #25. James Bond is sent to Washington DC to spy on a meeting held by a terrorist organization led by a man called Lexis, who plans to hold the"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"""007"". Bond walks into the foreground, revealing Brosnan's face and proclaiming ""You were expecting someone else?"", introducing him as the newest actor to play Bond since 1989. In ""Die Another Day"" (2002), Lee Tamahori, the film's director requested a CG bullet be added into the sequence, which is seen zooming from Bond's gun at the screen and disappearing, suggesting that Bond has fired straight into his opponent's weapon. This was the last gun barrel sequence where Bond wears a dinner suit and the last one until ""Spectre"" where the sequence is placed at the beginning. The gun barrel sequence was"
"for the 00 Section. Bond's fellow 00 agents appear receiving briefings in ""Thunderball"" and ""The World Is Not Enough"". The latter film shows a woman in one of the 00 chairs. In ""Thunderball"", there are nine chairs for the 00 agents; Moneypenny says every 00 agent in Europe has been recalled, not every 00 agent in the world. Behind the scenes photos of the film reveal that one of the agents in the chairs is female as well. As with the books, other writers have elaborated and expanded upon the 00 agents in the films and in other media. In"
"and tries to shoot him, but Bond pushes him overboard, where he is torn to pieces by a propeller. With the subsequent elimination of both Chagrin and Gorner, Bond considers his mission a success, and on condition that the agent M has waiting in the wings will not take his place Bond is sent to assess the new agent, designated 004. She turns out to be Scarlett Papava. Scarlett discloses that the story of her twin sister was a ploy to convince Bond to enable her to join the mission. Papava feared that if Bond knew she was a potential"
"recruited (as Bond was) from the British military's special forces. In the films, the 00 section is a discrete area of MI6, whose agents report directly to M, and tend to be sent on special assignments and troubleshooting missions, often involving rogue agents (from Britain or other countries) or situations where an ""ordinary"" intelligence operation uncovers or reveals terrorist or criminal activity too sensitive to be dealt with using ordinary procedural or legal measures, and where the aforementioned discretionary ""licence to kill"" is deemed necessary or useful in rectifying the situation. ""The World Is Not Enough"" introduces a special insignia"
"rarely seen and only spoken of. When Bean auditioned for the film, he was considered for the role of Bond (see List of actors considered for the James Bond character). Trevelyan has been ranked among the greatest Bond villains and is considered the dark inversion of Bond. Alec Trevelyan Alec Trevelyan (006), also known as Janus, is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 James Bond film ""GoldenEye"", portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, ""GoldenEye 007"". Once known as ""Agent 006"" under the"
"secret agents and commando types I met during the war"". Besides real life individuals, James Bond was also inspired by one of Dennis Wheatley's characters; the secret agent Gregory Sallust, based on Wheatley's late friend Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe. The 007 number assigned to James Bond may have been influenced by any number of sources. In the films and novels, the ""00"" prefix indicates Bond's discretionary ""licence to kill"", in executing his duties. Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of"
"Alec Trevelyan Alec Trevelyan (006), also known as Janus, is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 James Bond film ""GoldenEye"", portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, ""GoldenEye 007"". Once known as ""Agent 006"" under the employment of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Trevelyan betrays MI6 during a mission to blow up the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility in the Soviet Union while working with his close friend, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan). During the operation, Trevelyan is caught and apparently executed by the base's commander,"
"a target on behalf of the British Intelligence who has been selling smuggled goods to an unidentified source of buyers, for which Agent 007, James Bond is sent to put a stop to the change of hands with the aid of a Jamaican secret service agent, Nebula Valentine. As they crawl on the shores of a warehouse which was serving as the location of the meeting between the seller and the unknown buyer, Bond attempts to study the place before submitting an assault on Rifle, accompanied by other operatives under the command of his ally, Nebula. On the other side"
"past killing; not until the third novel, ""Moonraker"", does the 00 number designate a licence to kill. Thereafter, the novels are ambiguous about whether a 00 agent's licence to kill is limited, with varying accounts in ""Dr. No"", ""Goldfinger"", and ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". Per Fleming's ""Moonraker"", 00 agents face mandatory retirement at 45; John Gardner contradicts this in his novels, depicting a fifty-odd-year-old secret agent. Sebastian Faulks's ""Devil May Care"" features M giving Bond a choice of when to retire. Fleming himself only mentions five 00 agents in all. According to ""Moonraker"", James Bond is the most"
"Bond out of retirement, he orders the military to fire mortars at Bond's mansion when the retired spy refuses to return to duty. The first quarter of the film features Bond's subsequent visit to McTarry Castle in Scotland, on a quest to return the only piece of M's remains recovered after the attack—his bright red toupée. Subsequently, Bond—played by David Niven—becomes the new M and proceeds to order that all MI6 agents, male and female, be renamed ""James Bond 007"" in order to confuse the enemy. In 1983's ""Never Say Never Again"", Edward Fox played M as a bureaucrat, contemptuous"
"on Jean Bruce's character, the film features an original story by the first James Bond director Terence Young. The film was released a year before the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"" and has some similarities to that film and the future James Bond film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" as well as previous 007 films such as ""Thunderball"". The film begins with a pre-credits sequence of Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Frederick Stafford) chased by two cars containing enemy agents. OSS 117 manages to blow up both of the vehicles and escape by"
"2: Destination London. Agent Cody Banks Agent Cody Banks is a 2003 American spy comedy film directed by Harald Zwart. It follows the adventures of the 15-year-old title character, played by Frankie Muniz, who has to finish his chores, avoid getting grounded, and save the world by going undercover for the CIA as a James Bond type superspy. Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Darrell Hammond, Ian McShane, and Arnold Vosloo co-star. The film was filmed in British Columbia and was released in the United States on March 14, 2003. This film was the first major"
"soil in the Arctic, with a whole ice station of naval maintenance were assassinated, as well as their submarine sabotaged by an unknown group of mercenaries, whose primary plan was to steal all the six nuclear missiles within, which they succeed in. In present day, while on holiday in Switzerland, James Bond is contacted by M for an urgent assignment to take right after disabling the widow of a downed KGB assassin. Upon his arrival in London, Bond learns that the British Secret Service has lost an operative, Agent 009 in Peru who was investigating the notable submarine incident a"
"films list compiled by the British Film Institute. After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—Agent 007—travels to Miami Beach for a vacation. He receives instructions from his superior, M, via CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. After Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died"
"Q (James Bond) Q is a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelisations. Q (standing for Quartermaster as well as a reference to the deceptive Q-ships) is a job title, unlike M, which is a cypher for the character's name. He is the head of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. Q has appeared in 21 of the 24 Eon Productions James Bond films, the exceptions being ""Live and Let Die"", the 2006 ""Casino Royale"" and ""Quantum of Solace"". The character was also featured in both"